Description

At the time of this announcement, Splunk is not aware of any cases where this vulnerability has been actively exploited. Previous Product Security Announcements can be found on our Splunk Product Security Portal.
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Affected Products and Components

The security vulnerability addressed by this maintenance release affects versions:

Mitigation and Upgrades

To mitigate this issue, Splunk recommends upgrading to the latest release and applying as many of the Hardening Standards from the Securing Splunk documentation as are relevant to your environment. Splunk releases are cumulative, meaning that future releases will contain fixes to these vulnerabilities, new features and other bug fixes.

Credit

Splunk would like to thank and credit Hung-Chi Su at chroot.org with the responsible disclosure of this issue.